LIVE: Mourners Visit Carter Center To Pay Respects To Fmr US President Jimmy Carter | Georgia | N18G

USA LIVE: Former US President Jimmy Carter's State Funeral Begins in Atlanta, Georgia | Carter Plains | CNBC TV18
Live from Plains, Georgia, after the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, James Earl Carter Jr., died Sunday at the age of 100. His life ended where it began, in Plains. Following the news of his death, people in that town paid tribute.
Live from the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, after the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, James Earl Carter Jr., died Sunday at the age of 100. The Carter Center was founded in 1982 in partnership with Emory University, and operates to promote human rights, conflict resolution and the alleviation of human suffering
Jimmy Carter’s long public goodbye began on Saturday in south Georgia, where the 39th US president’s life began more than 100 years ago.
A motorcade with Carter’s flag-draped casket is heading to his hometown of Plains and past his boyhood home on the way to Atlanta. The procession began at the Phoebe Sumter medical center in Americus, where former Secret Service agents who had protected the late president served as pallbearers. A mournful train whistle filled the clear air as the pallbearers turned to face the hearse for a final goodbye, their hands on their hearts.
The Carter family, including the former president’s four children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, are accompanying their patriarch as his six-day state funeral begins.
AMERICUS, PLAINS, AND ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA – A motorcade carrying former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s remains travels from the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center, through his hometown of Plains, and then to the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where he will lie in repose for mourners to pay their respects until Tuesday, January 7. Before arriving at the Carter Presidential Center the motorcade will make a stop at the State Capitol where Governor Brian Kemp and local officials will observe a moment of silence to honor the former president. Carter will lie in repose at the Center until 1100GMT on Tuesday, January 7
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